Reviews

You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future by Jonathon Keats

stevenyenzer's review

2.0

Purports to be a more down-to-earth perspective of Fuller's highfalutin ideas. Unfortunately, Keats is just as highfalutin at times, allowing his enthusiasm and creativity to override any restrait as he ventures into fields he only understands at a surface level. The best example is his chapter on video games, where he uses innacurate claims to bolster his own assertions. I am not knowledgeable enough in other fields to tell whether Keats makes similarly dubious assertiosn throughout the rest of the book, but it's always disturbing when an author wanders into an area where I have some expertise and makes a series of questionable claims.

Overall I can't recommend You Belong to the Universe as either a biography of Fuller or a scientific exploration of how his ideas could be used today. Keats is not skeptical or rational enough to bring the realism he claims to.

7anooch's review

4.0

This book is all over the place, in a nice way.